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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 's Advantages
Lower TDP (64W vs 180W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 740
0.763 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +1062%
8.873 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

May 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.19GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
384
Shading Units
2560
32
TMUs
160
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

7.944 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
31.78 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
762.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
31.78 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

64W
TDP
180W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107
GPU Name
GP104
GK107-425-A2
GPU Variant
GP104-410-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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